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KABUL, Afghanistan — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta today pressured Pakistan to do more to root out the al-Qaida-linked Haqqani terrorist network from its territory, saying that U.S. officials are "reaching the limits of our patience."
The Haqqani group has been blamed for several attacks on Americans in Afghanistan, including last year's attack against the U.S. Embassy and NATO headquarters in Kabul. It also has ties to the Taliban and has emerged as perhaps the biggest threat to stability in Afghanistan.
Lawmakers from both parties have been urging the State Department to designate the Haqqani network a foreign terrorist organization.
The U.S. has given Pakistan billions of dollars in aid for its support in fighting Islamist militants.
Panetta made his comments at a news conference with Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak, capping two days of blunt commentary on Pakistan.
"It is an increasing concern that the safe haven exists and that there are those — likely Haqqanis — who are making use of that to attack our forces," Panetta said.
"We are reaching the limits of our patience here, and for that reason it is extremely important that Pakistan take action to prevent this kind of safe haven from taking place and allowing terrorists to use their country as a safety net in order to conduct their attacks on our forces."
Panetta then underscored his point.
"We have made that very clear time and time again and we will continue to do that, but as I said, we are reaching the limits of our patience."
Wardak also said he thought Pakistan could do more to eliminate the sanctuaries that militants are using in Pakistan, saying the Pakistanis are in a better position to provide intelligence or take law enforcement or military actions.
"I do hope that gradually they will come to the conclusion to cooperate with us," Wardak said.
"If that cooperation starts, we will be able to disrupt their command and control, disrupt their training, disrupt their weapon recruitment and also will be able to eliminate or capture their leadership."
"Without doing that, I think our endeavor to achieve victory will become much more difficult."
Panetta arrived in Afghanistan today to take stock of progress in the war and discuss plans for the troop drawdown, even as violence spiked in the south.
Making his fourth trip to the war zone, Panetta acknowledged the increase in attacks and that the insurgents appear to be much more organized. But he insisted that the overall level of violence was down, and that commanders had expected the uptick.
Panetta said he wants to get an assessment of the situation from the top U.S. commander, Marine Gen. John Allen, and see how confident he is about NATO's ability to confront the threats both from the Taliban and the Haqqani network.
"I think it's important to make sure we are aware of the kind of attacks they're going to engage in … as we go through the rest of the summer," Panetta told reporters traveling with him during a stop in New Delhi, India, on Wednesday.
Speaking to troops gathered at the airport in Kabul, Panetta kept up the drumbeat on Pakistan that began two days earlier during his visit to India. Panetta told the troops that "we have every responsibility to defend ourselves and we are going to make very clear that we are prepared to take them on and we've got to put pressure on Pakistan to take them on as well."
Panetta is arriving just a day after three suicide attackers blew themselves up in a marketplace in southern Afghanistan, killing 22 people and wounding at least 50 others. In the east, meanwhile, Afghan officials and residents said a predawn NATO airstrike targeting militants killed civilians celebrating a wedding, including women and children. A NATO forces spokesman said the coalition had no reports of civilians being killed in a raid.
Allen has to withdraw 23,000 American troops by the end of September, leaving about 68,000 U.S. military personnel in the country. Officials have said the bulk of the 23,000 probably will not come out until shortly before the deadline.
As those troops leave, Allen has said that Afghan forces will be used to fill in the gaps in the eastern and southwestern parts of the country. They will be buttressed by U.S. advisory teams that will work with the Afghan units.
Once the 23,000 U.S. troops depart, Allen is expected to review how the fighting season is going and then will begin to put together an analysis for President Barack Obama on how troop withdrawals will proceed next year.
Panetta also was scheduled to meet with U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker.
A senior U.S. official acknowledged Thursday that the recent increase in drone strikes on insurgents in Pakistan is due in part to frustration with Islamabad. Despite pressure from U.S. commanders, Pakistan remains reluctant to go after insurgents, particularly the Haqqani network, which was likely responsible for recent deadly attacks on U.S. forces.
Panetta's explicit description of frustration, while visiting neighboring India, appeared to signal a somewhat tougher stance and a suggestion that the U.S. is becoming even more willing and quick to strike terrorist targets inside Pakistan.
The defense secretary also joked with troops at the Kabul airport about the U.S. strike that killed an al-Qaida leader Monday, saying, "the worst job you can get these days is to be a deputy leader in al-Qaida, or for that matter a leader"
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Money Managers Expect Muted Year-end Tech RallyBy Reuters - Print
This year, with high energy and food prices, the housing slump and credit market crisis muting consumer demand, Wall Street is bracing for a subdued performance from the technology industry--gadgets, devices, gaming consoles and computers--even during its busiest manufacturing season for the Christmas-spending holidays.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - As investors exchange their beach wear for business suits at the end of summer every year, they usually prepare for a rally in technology stocks in the run-up to the December gadget spending spree.
But this year, with high energy and food prices, the housing slump and credit market crisis muting consumer demand, Wall Street is bracing for a subdued performance from the technology industry even during its busiest manufacturing season.
Dell Inc (DELL.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), the world's No. 2 maker of personal computers, sounded a warning bell on Thursday when it reported a sharper-than-expected drop in quarterly profit and said cutbacks in U.S. spending were spreading to other countries.
While analysts say the results reflect weaknesses in Dell as much as in the broader industry, even the most bullish forecasts call for only a 10 percent to 15 percent rise in technology stocks this fall -- which would barely take the sector back to where it was at the start of 2008.
"The tech rally into the back half of the year will probably be more muted than other years," said Jim Grossman, an analyst for Thrivent Asset Management, which manages $73.2 billion of investments.
However, if holiday sales outpace the worst expectations, investors would revisit the sector since the shares already reflect deep pessimism, he said.
The S&P Information Technology 45 index has fallen about 13 percent so far this year and the Merrill Lynch Technology 100 index has lost about 14 percent.
Tech stocks in the S&P 500 index are trading at about 16 times estimates of earnings for the next 12 months, compared with almost a multiple of 19 this time last year, according to Thomson Reuters Proprietary Research.
Kevin Landis, chief investment officer of Firsthand Capital Management, which manages about $600 million worth of investments, said high-growth tech firms will look cheap when the economy starts to improve. "What could be better than buying growth stocks at a no-growth multiple?" he said.
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WASHINGTON - U.S. corporations will need to disclose how their chief executive's paycheck compares to that of their average worker under a proposal set to be unveiled on Wednesday by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The SEC's CEO pay ratio rule is championed by unions and labor advocates who say the disclosures will help investors identify whether a company's compensation model is too top-heavy.
But companies and business organizations such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, as well as, the Center on Executive Compensation, which represents human resources executives, have vehemently opposed the measure, saying it is too costly to compile the data and will not be useful for investors.
They have urged the SEC to scale it back, possibly by allowing companies with global offices to compile the median annual pay of average workers using compensation data from only their U.S.-based employees.
The proposal is one of two major outstanding regulations mandated by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law that the SEC plans to tackle at Wednesday's public meeting.
In addition to the CEO pay ratio plan, the SEC is expected to adopt a reform that will allow it to oversee financial advisers to cities, counties and other municipal entities that sell public debt or manage public money.
The rule will require advisers to register with the SEC and be held to a "fiduciary" standard, or ensure they act in the best interest of customers.
The primary complaint against the municipal adviser rule proposal was that it was drafted too broadly, ensnaring too many people, such as volunteers or board members, in cumbersome regulation.
The final rule is expected to have a narrower definition of who qualifies as an adviser, but it is also expected to span hundreds of pages. Once enacted, the federal government will be able to give professional qualification licensing exams and extend regulations that only broker-dealers currently must follow to advisers, including limits on gifts and gratuities.
The SEC's CEO pay-ratio proposal comes on the heels of the fifth anniversary of the collapse of investment banking giant Lehman Brothers and the country's financial meltdown.
The 2007-2009 financial crisis led to widespread public outrage over the lavish compensation of bank CEOS, especially after the government swooped in to rescue the sector.
A new report by the Institute for Policy Studies which analyzed data about top CEO earners over a 20-year period found that chief executives whose firms collapsed or received government bailouts have held 112 of the 500 top pay leader slots.
And yet, even after Wall Street reforms were passed, the report said the pay gap between CEOS and the average American worker has grown from 195-1 in 1993 to 354-1 in 2012.
The CEO pay-ratio provision, which was tucked into the law by New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, is one short paragraph in the lengthy Dodd-Frank law. But its backers say it is critical information for the marketplace.
"This rule is really, really important to investors because it will shine a light on the pay ladder within a company," said Vineeta Anand, the chief research analyst at the AFL-CIO Office of Investment.
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With over 25 years' experience, the Law Office of Todd E. Tkach has successfully defended hundreds of drivers at driver license suspension and revocation hearings. Have you received a notice letter from the Texas Department of Public Safety (Tx DPS) that your driver's license is going to be suspended or revoked? If so, we can help, but you must act fast. You only have 20 days from the notice letter in which to request a hearing to stop the suspension or revocation of your driver's license. Failure to timely request a hearing will result in a suspension or revocation of your driver's license.
If you are facing a Krugerville DPS driver license hearing, call us today to try and save your driving privileges!
Tx DPS has the authority to issue driver licenses and to suspend or revoke the driving privileges of ANY person to drive in The State of Texas. To successfully defend against these charges, it's very important to understand the difference between a suspension and a revocation, the legal procedure of each, and the evidence required to prevail.
A driver license suspension is for a definite time period, usually between 90 days to 1 year. Once suspended, you cannot renew your driver's license until after the suspension time is expired. However, in this scenario, it is possible to apply for an Occupational Driver License (also known as a Temporary Driver License). A driver license revocation, on the other hand, is for an indefinite time. But, once revoked, you may be able, at any time, to cure the problem causing the revocation and then reinstate your driver's license. An Occupational Driver License is not available for a revoked driver license.
The Texas Transportation Code provides the statutory authority for Tx DPS to seek a suspension of a persons' driver's license if it determines that the person:
- has operated a motor vehicle on a highway while the person's license was suspended, canceled, disqualified, or revoked, or without a license after an application for a license was denied;
- is a habitually reckless or negligent operator of a motor vehicle;
- is a habitual violator of the traffic laws (i.e. 4 convictions within 12 months or 7 convictions within 24 months);
- has permitted the unlawful or fraudulent use of the person's license;
- has committed an offense in another state or Canadian province that, if committed in this state, would be grounds for suspension;
- has been convicted of two or more separate offenses of a violation of a restriction imposed on the use of the license;
- has been responsible as a driver for any accident resulting in serious personal injury or serious property damage;
- is under 18 years of age and has been convicted of two or more moving violations committed within a 12-month period; or
- has committed an offense under Section 545.421 (fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer).
Similarly, the Texas Transportation Code sets forth 5 actions that will cause Tx DPS to seek a revocation of a person's driver license if it determines that the person:
- is incapable of safely operating a motor vehicle;
- has not complied with the terms of a citation issued by a jurisdiction that is a party to the Nonresident Violator Compact of 1977 for a traffic violation to which that compact applies;
- has failed to provide medical records or has failed to undergo medical or other examinations as required by a panel of the medical advisory board;
- has failed to pass an examination required by the director under this chapter; or
- has committed an offense in another state or Canadian province that, if committed in this state, would be grounds for revocation.
No matter the reason for the requested suspension or revocation, the attorneys with the Law Office of Todd E. Tkach will develop a winning strategy, vigorously defend you and fight for your driving privileges in the State of Texas. The first step is to timely request a hearing. Failing to do so will result in an automatic suspension or revocation of your driver license. We always request a hearing by electronic submission, so that we can prove the timeliness of the request. After we timely request a hearing on your behalf, your case will be assigned to one of the Justice of the Peace Courts or Municipal Courts in the county of your residence. Hearings are usually scheduled between 30 and 120 days from the request, and we will be notified in writing. During that time period, your driver's license is NOT suspended or revoked. Requesting a hearing "stays" the suspension or revocation until it is heard by the court.
At the hearing, we will present any and all necessary evidence in order to win. The judge will determine, based on the preponderance of the evidence presented, whether the allegations are true (in which case the Judge issues an "Affirmative Finding") or false (in which case the Judge issues a "Negative Finding"). If there's a Negative Finding, your driver license is not suspended. In the event of an Affirmative Finding, your driver license may be suspended. But, even with an Affirmative Finding, we are almost always able to successfully argue for NO suspension or revocation. At the end of the proceeding, the Judge will issue his or her findings and we will promptly notify you of the result.
This is important; a Krugerville DPS driver license hearing is serious. Your driving privileges could be taken away! An experienced defense attorney can also provide additional assistance even if the proceeding goes against you!
Even if your driver license is suspended, there are options to continue driving, legally! It's called an Occupational Driver License, which allows you to continue to legally drive if you have an "essential need." The time periods and places you can drive are restricted, but it gets you back on the road. Obtaining an Occupational Driver License is a separate legal proceeding, which can be tricky to obtain. Call us if you need an Occupational Driver License.
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Let's let Jacques Plante's Hockey Hall of Fame biography tell this one:
Throughout his career he was plagued with recurring asthma and after missing 13 games due to a sinusitis operation, Plante began wearing a mask in practices in 1956. Coach Toe Blake endorsed the move cautiously because it kept his goalie healthy and happy, but he warned Plante that a mask wasn't permitted during games. However, during a Montreal versus New York game the night of November 2, 1959, Plante was hit in the face by a shot. He went off to the dressing room for stitches and when he returned he was wearing a mask. Blake was livid, but he had no other goalie to call upon and Plante refused to return to the goal unless he kept the mask. Blake agreed on condition that Plante discard the mask when the cut had healed. In the ensuing days Plante refused, and as the team continued to win, Blake became less obstinate. The Montreal record stretched into an 18-game unbeaten streak with Plante protected and the mask was in the NHL for good.
This photo was taken in November 1959, a few days after Plante's nose was broken and shredded. In the background, a pair of prototypes. It took 15 years, but in 1974 Pittsburgh's Andy Brown played his last NHL game, and no NHL goaltender would go maskless again. (Brown was a tough dude. He set a record for penalty minutes by a goalie with 60 in that 73-74 season.)
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For more than three centuries, the image of Canadian beer has been one of cleanliness and freshness. We have the early settlers and traders to thank for that well-deserved reputation because they were the country's first brewers. After Jean Talon built Canada's first commercial brewery in 1668 in Quebec City, beer making became a cottage industry for the next century.
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- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- In the bowl of a food processor, puree the garlic and sun-dried tomatoes on high speed. Slowly add the oil through the feed tube as the machine is running and process until smooth. Add the goat cheese and Creole Cream Cheese and process until smooth. Transfer to a mixing bowl and add the eggs, Parmesan cheese, salt and pepper, and whisk well to combine.
- Using a pastry brush, grease six 6-ounce ramekins with the melted butter and sprinkle the inside of each with the breadcrumbs to lightly coat. Divide the cheese batter among the ramekins. Place on a baking sheet and bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until cooked through and risen. Remove from the oven and let sit for 5 minutes.
- In a large bowl toss the greens with the remaining 2 tablespoons of the oil and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Divide the greens among 6 serving plates, and invert one cheese cake onto each, shaking gently to release. Drizzle each cake with basil pesto, and garnish with remaining sun-dried tomato puree, if desired. Serve immediately.
- BASIL PESTO: In the bowl of a food processor, combine the basil, cheese, pinenuts, garlic, salt and pepper. Puree on high speed. Slowly add the oil through the feed tube and process until a smooth paste forms. Pour into a bowl until ready to use.
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- Source: Essence of Emeril EE2B20
- Dish Type: Salads
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"Be joyful, though you have considered all the facts." Wendell Berry
Another great book by Anne Lamott, although not everyone enjoys her meandering style. I listened to the audio book available on Overdrive from the library. She narrates it herself; I find her voice very down-to-earth and soothing.
Her thoughts on life and love and God are refreshing, funny, ecumenical, and universal. She is honest about her personal struggles and has a realistic view of self-help: she says simply "be kind to yourself and try to do a little bit better everyday." It's a crazy world and putting unrealistic pressure on yourself to improve, isn't going to help. Her message of hope is wise, accessible, approachable, and helpful without being bossy. She may not deliver many answers in her message, but for me she has the power to gently coax me out of some dark thoughts and into the light, in other words, to find some hope.
Here Anne answers questions from fans while she signs books with her fiancé Neil. It's a delightful impromptu interview:


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This week is full of magic and wonder; new possibilities and fun; a complete remake of outward appearances.
Of course, I'm not talking about Halloween. I'm talking about my Mobile Phone Upgrade Day!
It's been a long two years. I may have once decried the slowing progress of mobile technology, but that was before a new phone was only a few days away from my grasp. Now everything available seems so cool even Han Solo might have it.
North American consumers of all ages look forward to their own Upgrade Days with fervent anticipation, unless they are incredibly patient and mature. But since I don't know anyone that fits that description, I'm going to generalize.
Notice how I said "North American consumers" back there? That's because Americans and Canadians are the pretty much the only cell phone consumers who get to experience the wonder that is Upgrade Day.
Don't worry. This isn't going to turn into some infomercial about impoverished countries that can't afford cell phones. It's actually a cautionary tale about our spending habits, starring me. But first, some market analysis.
As you may know, Americans and Canadians are the only consumers that expect our cell phone companies to subsidize the cost of our handsets. Most consumers in the rest of the world, particularly Europe and Japan, buy their phones outright — what we call "unlocked" phones — and then connect them to whatever mobile carrier they choose under a pre-paid calling and data plan. More than half of European consumers operate this way. In the U.S., only 22 percent of us do. So how much does that $200 iPhone 5 actually cost?
The people who have been unfortunate enough to break a phone out of warranty know exactly how much it costs — in the case of the iPhone, $650. So where does that extra $450 come from? You, silly! It comes in the form of a two-year contact loaded with exorbitant fees and weird costs. These high monthly fees more than make up for AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, or T-Mobile's initial $450 investment in your new phone after less than a year. North Americans spend an average of $51.40 monthly on cell service. Europeans spend only $30.83.
Even the Chief Marketing Officer for T-Mobile, Cole Brodman, thinks we're stupid.
Why have we chosen to put ourselves under indentured cellular servitude? If you haven't noticed from the past five years of this nation's history, a vast amount of Americans are simply incapable of saving money. $200 now, plus $450, plus whatever else the company wants to charge over two years sounds a lot better than $650 when you're standing in that store.
Why don't more Americans and Canadians ditch to a pre-paid plan? For most, it's because most of the phones available for our pre-paid carriers tend to … well, suck. That's because they have to offer cheaper phones, relatively speaking, to even get a modicum of buyer attention. They simply cannot put a price tag of $650 on a phone, although both Apple and Google are dipping their toes in the water. However, the typical American cell consumer simply wasn't conditioned to behave that way.
As latecomers to wide cellular adoption (PDF) relative to other industrialized markets like Europe, Americans didn't view cell phones as the high-tech pieces of hardware that they are. We viewed them as roughly the same as our landline phones, which retailed for about $100. Other countries hated their landlines and wanted to escape them as fast as possible, accepting the price of entry for early adoption. Stateside, infant wireless companies knew they had to price their offerings relative to the competition to spur widespread adoption. They figured out a way to make that happen through subsidies and contracts, even if they were trying to sell something that was more akin to a home computer than a home phone.
So here I sit on Upgrade Day, knowing what a responsible person would do. Buying the new phone outright, even on a credit card, can save me roughly $1,000 over two years if I take it over to Virgin Mobile. But I am actually one of the few people who don't have a problem with AT&T. I've been with them for over ten years. They have LTE in my city and anywhere else I would go. The thought of another two-year shotgun marriage to them doesn't turn my stomach.
So I turn to the great decider. Not Ronald Reagan; my wife.
She's not very happy at spending $199, but I drop the "noted technology columnist needs the latest technology to stay relevant" card. With this much resistance to $199, I forget about the pre-paid $650 phone idea altogether, including the $1,000 savings. I guess the American preference for subsidized phones isn't such a mystery after all.
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~2100 enhance and elemental shaman pvp (highest exp 2179pr/2230tr). mostly 3v3, sometimes RBGs and random BGs. i stream a couple times a week.
Arena Master Elemental Shaman
BM hunter ; tijnn
Holy paladin ; liladin
Hello all. I am new to the pvp world. I used to PVE and stream gold making, but after a short break of 2 months I wanna focus on getting better in PVP.
I will be streaming mostly RBG's, Arena matches or random BG's.
www.twitch.tv/lokiess Going live in about 5-10 minutes.
Going to start some trash teams to warm up then Mage DK Shaman, eta on main team 30 minutes.
Hey, Yo, We're MLDing it now. Watch us on our terrible team. Please.
also, we are really bad. Help us out.
Mainly playing RMP around 2.3k with Macklemøre and Stælther, and sometimes playing 1v2s for fun.
not live right now, but will be tomorrow
Streaming absolutely nothing interesting right now (Unholy DK HK grind).
Streaming Resto Druid 2k+ 2s in future, Shatterplay/Godcomp 3s, RBGs.
You can add me as Arcane Mage streamer also : ) (twitch.tv/melfarion)
PvE Superstar and member of vodka up until they disbanded. Rank 1 World of Logs parser for years now seeking Rank 1 Glads! Up and comer in the PvP scene playing Priest, all specs as well as druid, paladin, shaman sometimes. Arenas and RBGs and all sorts of other things too
Hello everyone!
My name is Lumune (Cin) ^_^. I play on US-Area 52.
Shadow Priest with 2000 3s rating streaming Arenas and casual Battleground gameplay.
I also play Holy Priest (520) PvE and hope to start streaming Raids soon. ^_^
I typically stream mornings, afternoons, and evenings. EST.
Please give me a follow me on twitter @_ciinciin_ or at https://www.twitch.tv/lumune
I'm Hoffahoff on Twitch. Haven't posted enough on MMO-Champ to properly paste the link...hopefully the OP can fix that for me. Washed-up Glad Ret! Late night BG's and occasionally failing with some non FotM arena -- double Ret-Disc, anyone?
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Resto-druid, glad in s3,4,6,7,8
Movie-maker in Cataclysm
Streaming mainly arena 2400+
Shadow / Disc Pvp stream. I stream duels, rbgs (from 2 to 2.4k mmr) and arenas (2k xp).
Link: http://www.twitch.tv/harukaapvp/
Thank you.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Robinson Cano drove in two runs with a bases-loaded double and the Seattle Mariners blanked the Tampa Bay Rays for the second straight game, 3-0 Monday.
Five Seattle pitchers combined on a five-hitter. The Mariners extended their scoreless streak to 19 games and won for the eighth time in nine games.
The Rays have lost 13 of 14 and are saddled with the worst record in the major leagues at 24-41. The last time they were 17 games under .500 was the end of 2007, the final year they were known as the Devil Rays.
Cano's big hit came during a three-run third inning against David Price (4-6), who struck out 10 in eight innings. The 2012 AL Cy Young Award winner has dropped three straight decisions and hasn't won in nine starts since beating Minnesota on April 22.
Mariners starter Erasmo Ramirez didn't allow a run, but failed to get through the fifth inning to qualify for the victory. The 24-year-old right-hander allowed four hits and walked five in 4 2/3 innings.
Joe Beimel (1-1) retired the only two batters he faced to get the victory, and Fernando Rodney worked a perfect ninth for his 18th save in 20 opportunities.
The Rays were shut out for the AL-high ninth time overall.
Seattle finished a 6-1 road trip. The Mariners won three straight over Tampa Bay after dropping the opener of the four-game series.
Price allowed three runs and seven hits and walked one. He has the best strikeout to walk ratio in baseball, but has also yielded a major league-leading 105 hits 99 2/3 innings.
Cano, who has an 18-game road hitting streak, delivered his two-run double after the Mariners loaded the bases on three singles. Stefen Romero had an RBI grounder that made it 3-0.
It was the majors-leading 41st time Tampa Bay has allowed three or more runs in an inning this season. Meanwhile, the Rays stranded seven runners and were 0 for 5 with men in scoring position through four innings against Ramirez, who entered the game with a 6.82 ERA.
The frustration continued in the fifth, when Ramirez gave up a two-out double to James Loney and walked Ben Zobrist before Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon turned to his bullpen.
Beimel fanned pinch-hitter Jerry Sands, ending the threat and eliciting smattering of groans and boos from the crowd of 10,400 at Tropicana Field.
NOTES: Struggling Grant Balfour is out as the Rays' closer. Manager Joe Maddon said the team instead will close games by committee. … Mariners 1B Justin Smoak (sore left leg) and OF Michael Saunders (sore right shoulder) were out of the starting lineup for the third consecutive game. … Rays rookie right-hander Jake Odorizzi (2-6) will go against St. Louis ace Adam Wainwright (8-3) in the opener of a two-game interleague series Tuesday night. Odorizzi grew up 35 minutes from St. Louis and called his start against the Cardinals a "special occasion." … In a matchup of former teammates with Rakuten of Japan's Pacific League, Mariners RHP Hisashi Iwakuma (4-2) and Yankees RHP Masahiro Tanaka (9-1) will start in the opener of a three-game series in Seattle.
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Where Christmas
past is present
Historic St. Charles
by Jim McCarty
Visit St. Charles
in December and its obvious Missouris first capital takes
the Christmas season seriously. The
historic river citys Christmas Traditions festivities return for
the 22nd year.
Stroll down
the cobblestone streets in the historic district and you are likely
to smell roasting chestnuts and see living history characters like Ebeneezer
Scrooge, the Little Match Girl and historic Santas from around the world.
St. Charles spares no expense to make your Christmas visit memorable.
In October they hold tryouts for parts in their festivities and hire
professional actors like the ones featured on our cover to play the
parts. A dialect coach ensures they not only look the part but also
sound authentic.
Only real decorations
are allowed along Main Street, adding the sense of smell to the sites
and sounds of the season. The Lewis & Clark Drum and Fife Corps
joins carolers singing Christmas favorites. Dozens of craft stores can
fill everyones wish lists.
On Dec. 7 the Las Posadas procession reenacts Mary and Joseph looking
for shelter at the inn, followed by a throng of thousands holding candles.
There is a Santa parade each weekend and plenty of opportunity for photos
with Santa and his reindeer.
For more information call 1-800-366-2427 or log on to www.stcharleschristmas.com.


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Editor's Note: Code Switch has been engaged in a month-long exploration of romance across racial and cultural lines. Follow the Twitter conversation via the hashtag #xculturelove.
The numbers are small but growing.
More than 5.3 million marriages in the U.S. are between husbands and wives of different races or ethnicities. According to the 2010 Census, they make up one in 10 marriages between opposite-sex couples, marking a 28-percent increase since 2000.
Newlyweds Louie Okamoto, 28, and Kelly Mottershead, 27, joined the group last October in a decidedly untraditional way.
Family and friends gathered on a northern California beach to see Mottershead's father walk her down the aisle to Van Morrison's "Into The Mystic," as Okamoto waited along the shores of Carmel Bay in sandals.
"[The wedding wasn't] formal except for maybe a white dress. Even that wasn't very formal!" Mottershead says.
The fact that an American-born son of Japanese immigrants was marrying a bride born in the U.S. to a Colombian mother and an Irish father felt "totally normal" to the couple.
"We didn't even think it was like an issue really worth talking about at first," says Mottershead, who grew up in California, where almost 18 percent of marriages between men and women are interracial or interethnic.
Highest Out West
The Census Bureau does not have an exact count of same-sex marriages. But for opposite-sex couples, data shows that interracial and interethnic marriages are most common in the western and southwestern regions of the country.
Hawaii leads by a long shot at just over 39 percent, followed by three states around 19 percent — Alaska, New Mexico and Oklahoma. According to the Census Bureau, "This reflects the high proportion of American Indian and Alaska Native alone population in Alaska and Oklahoma and the high proportion of Hispanics or Latinos in New Mexico."
Evan Woodson, 22, a registered member of the Cherokee Nation who now lives in Stillwater, Okla., says he checks off three race boxes on census forms: American Indian, white and black. Woodson, who grew up in Owasso, Okla., married his high school sweetheart in 2012.
"I don't think people were surprised that I wanted to marry a white girl because, honestly, if I didn't want to marry a white girl, I wouldn't have had a whole lot of options," he explains.
An 'Increased Level Of Scrutiny'
The options were also limited for Sarah and Tracy McWilliams — in a different kind of way.
Tracy McWilliams, 51, says he thought he would never marry again after his second divorce, much less to a white woman.
"It's hard enough being black, you know, and it was like incurring this increased level of scrutiny and hatred just by marrying outside of your race," he says.
Still, he and Sarah McWilliams, 47, exchanged vows last year in front of a justice of the peace.
"That was really one of the happiest moments of my life," says Tracy McWilliams, who had trouble holding back tears during the courthouse ceremony near Baltimore.
Most states east of the Mississippi, including Maryland, fall below the national percentage of interracial and interethnic marriages, down into the single digits.
In southern states like North Carolina, where Sarah McWilliams grew up, that's part of the legacy of laws that once banned miscegenation.
"I was raised that you don't cross the barrier at all — not just [between] black and white, but anything other than white," says Sarah McWilliams, who also had a previous marriage with an African-American man.
'Are We Interesting?'
The year after Sarah McWilliams was born, the barrier was broken legally by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967 with its landmark ruling on the Loving vs. Virginia case, which struck down anti-miscegenation laws in Virginia and many other states.
The barrier was broken again later that same year on the big screen in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, the 1967 film starring Sidney Poitier as an African-American doctor who falls in love with a white woman.
Almost a half-century later, Sarah McWilliams says she is surprised that her interracial marriage still draws attention in public.
A couple months ago at an IHOP near her home in suburban Maryland, she noticed that a woman at another table was staring at her and her husband as they chatted over their meal.
"I finally caught her eye and said, 'Are we interesting?' " Sarah McWilliams recalls.
The woman looked away, dropped her head, and walked out.
A white woman having a conversation in a restaurant with her black husband may have once been a "big thing" in America, but Sarah says, "I don't think it should make a difference anymore."
Valentine's Day, unsurprisingly, is one of the most popular days to get married. Couples flocked to courthouses and churches all across America yesterday. Many of those who got married were people from different races and backgrounds. Code Switch, NPR's reporting team on race, ethnicity and culture, has been looking at interracial and interethnic marriages, which have increased 28 percent over the past decade. Now, in a moment, we'll hear from NPR's Karen Grigsby-Bates about how those numbers are reflected on popular television. But first, here's NPR's Hansi Lo Wang.
HANSI LO WANG, BYLINE: More than 5.3 million marriages in the U.S. are between husbands and wives of different races or ethnicities. Newlyweds Louie Okamoto and Kelly Mottershead joined the group last October in a decidedly untraditional way.
WANG: Kelly's father walked her down the aisle to Van Morrison's "Into the Mystic," as Louie waited along the shores of California's Carmel Bay in sandals.
LOUIE OKAMOTO: We literally had a beach party. That was our wedding.
KELLY MOTTERSHEAD: Yeah, nothing formal except for maybe a white dress. Even that wasn't very formal.
WANG: And for an American-born son of Japanese immigrants to marry a bride with a Colombian mother and an Irish father, it felt...
MOTTERSHEAD: ...totally normal. We didn't even think it was like an issue really worth talking about at first.
WANG: That's partly because interracial and interethnic marriages between men and women are most common out west. The national rate is 10 percent, according to the Census Bureau. Most states east of the Mississippi fall below that rate, including Maryland, where Tracy and Sarah McWilliams tied the knot last year. Tracy says he thought he would never marry again after his second divorce - much less to a white woman.
TRACY MCWILLIAMS: It's hard enough being black, you know. And it was like incurring this increased level of scrutiny and hatred just by marrying outside of your race.
WANG: Sarah says she understands that scrutiny from growing up in North Carolina.
SARAH MCWILLIAMS: I was raised that you don't cross the barrier at all. Not just black and white, but anything other than white.
WANG: The year after Sarah was born, the barrier was broken legally by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967.
WANG: That same year it was broken again on the big screen in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner." On the smaller screen, though, cross-cultural love was introduced to American audiences almost two decades earlier. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.